Placemaker

Hi I am looking for some help with Placemaker as I am brand new to RSS and MAPS and Geo Information

I am trying to put a RSS feed to Placemaker for the result output to a Map?
Below is what I am doing is this wrong?


http://wherein.yahooapis.com/v1/document

documentUR=http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/03413850423032271991/876457352076090172
documentType=text/rss
outputType=rss
appid=TzsGgsnV34EFNF.0oLfSxs1fj6GaSVj6jSELjVZNol6azMx6_4e35_kMWybzF79gtDsUG3OqI4
n4XNKJtw--

Any help would be much appreciated as the output from Placemaker RSS would then go in a pipe that shows fishing information onto a map.

and I just can not understand the documentation but that might be just me.

Thank you
Billy

Your request must be presented as a HTTP POST request. This means you need to use JavaScript or another language (such as PHP) that allows you to send such requests. In JavaScript, the following code should work:

CODE

var documentURL = 'http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/03413850423032271991/876457352076090172';
var documentType = 'text/rss';
var outputType = 'rss';
var appid = 'TzsGgsnV34EFNF.0oLfSxs1fj6GaSVj6jSELjVZNol6azMx6_4e35_kMWybzF79gtDsUG3OqI4
n4XNKJtw--';
var passData = 'documentURL='+escape(documentURL)+'&documentType='+escape(documentType)+'&outputType='+escape(outputType)+'&appid='+escape(appid);
var AJAX = null;
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
   AJAX = new XMLHttpRequest();
} else {
   AJAX = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
if (AJAX == null) {
   alert("Your browser doesn't support AJAX.");                                         
   return false
} else {
   AJAX.open("POST", "http://wherein.yahooapis.com/v1/document", true);
   AJAX.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
   AJAX.onreadystatechange = function() {                      
      if (AJAX.readyState == 4 || AJAX.readyState == "complete") { 
         callback(AJAX.responseText, AJAX.status); 
      }                               
   }                                  
   AJAX.send(passData);
}

This will insert your paramters into the body of a POST request, send it to Placemaker, and call your function called 'callback' with the response text and status

Eddie Babcock
Yahoo! Geo Technologies

I am trying to use javascript and open the url.
But I dont see anything happening. It doesnt print any alert messages after this line
AJAX.open("POST,"http://wherein.apis.com/v1/document",true);
....

I dont understand whats wrong here. My guess is it doesnt open the link , as I dont see any alert messages popped up after this line.
Please help

Thanks,
Sangy